{"id":790,"date":"2010-02-24T17:38:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T21:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=790"},"modified":"2010-02-24T17:40:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T21:40:49","slug":"25-more-quotes-on-politics-government-and-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"25 more quotes on politics, government and democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Here is another 25 quotes on politics&#8230; for a total of 250 (a quarter of the way to\u00a0our goal of compiling\u00a01,000 <em>bon mots<\/em> on the subject.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The most important political office is that of the private citizen.\u00a0&#8211; Louis Brandeis<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.\u00a0&#8211; Proverb<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people.\u00a0 Of course, that is not true.\u00a0 Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote &#8211; a very different thing.\u00a0&#8211; Walter H. Judd<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.\u00a0&#8211; John Perry Barlow<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it &#8211; whether it be a factory or a government.\u00a0 &#8211; Alexander Chase<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Treaties are like roses and young girls &#8211; they last while they last.\u00a0&#8211; Charles de Gaulle<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush.\u00a0 It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.\u00a0 &#8211; Robert M. Hutchins <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.\u00a0 &#8211; John Gardner<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Washington<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"> is a place where politicians don&#8217;t know which way is up and taxes don&#8217;t know which way is down.\u00a0&#8211; Robert Orben<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Everybody wants to eat at the government&#8217;s table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.\u00a0&#8211; Werner Finck<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.\u00a0&#8211; George Pataki<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Morphine and state relief are the same.\u00a0 You go dopey, feel better and are worse off.\u00a0 &#8211; Martin H. Fischer<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?\u00a0&#8211; Anonymous <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Democracy is an abuse of statistics.\u00a0&#8211; Jorge Luis Borges<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The mistakes made by Congress wouldn&#8217;t be so bad if the next Congress didn&#8217;t keep trying to correct them.\u00a0&#8211; Cullen Hightower<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The plague of government is senile delinquency.\u00a0&#8211; Mignon McLaughlin<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">In a state-run society the government promises you security.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk.\u00a0 Nothing could be further from the truth.\u00a0 The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.\u00a0 The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.\u00a0&#8211; Theodore Forstmann<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes.\u00a0 So that&#8217;s why we can&#8217;t get anything done in the morning:\u00a0 We&#8217;re government workers.\u00a0 &#8211; Jay Leno<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character.\u00a0 The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.\u00a0 &#8211; Wilhelm Reich <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.\u00a0 &#8211; Richard Rumbold <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Every government is a parliament of whores.\u00a0 The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.\u00a0&#8211; P.J. O&#8217;Rourke<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.\u00a0&#8211; Wendell Phillips<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The Lord&#8217;s Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.\u00a0&#8211; <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">National Review<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Man&#8217;s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man&#8217;s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.\u00a0 &#8211; Reinhold Niebuhr<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.\u00a0 &#8211; James Bryce<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Here is another 25 quotes on politics&#8230; for a total of 250 (a quarter of the way to\u00a0our goal of compiling\u00a01,000 bon mots on the subject.)\u00a0 The most important political office is that of the private citizen.\u00a0&#8211; Louis Brandeis Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.\u00a0&#8211; Proverb People often say that, in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}